Comments on: Nigerian Neurodiversity

By: Kev

Kev — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:44:23 +0000

Never mind got it. Well for a start thats Kenya. SL wondered about Nigeria. Secondly thats the sole reference to vaccines in a 2 page piece. Try again ;)

By: Kev

Kev — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:39:34 +0000

Link please century….:)

By: century

century — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:24:14 +0000

SL said
“I’d also love to hear what they have to say about life-saving vaccines”

allAfrica.com: Kenya

After a measles jab, he developed a persistent fever that lasted a month. ... Then, he was diagnosed with autism. “I had not heard of autism until then,”

By: Catherina

Catherina — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:46:57 +0000

Moin Monika,

I am also from Germany and one of the things I see (or don’t see for that matter) is that in Germany, vaccines are not that hotly debated as a “cause” for autism. Would you agree with that, or am I just not looking for such claims in the right places?

By: Monika

Monika — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:32:38 +0000

I live in Berlin, Germany, and have a 7-year-old son with autism. I follow the neurodiversity discussions with great interest, as the concept has not spread too much in Germany yet. I love the idea and try to cover it well in our German autism weblog.

By the way: here in Berlin I know a woman who is originally from Nigeria and she has adorable autistic triplets! (No small challenge, though.)

By: S.L.

S.L. — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:58:44 +0000

Wow, awesome Kev. What a find, thanks for sharing! Beautiful words in that article, I did tear up. Looks like we could all learn from at least one “developing” country. I’d also love to hear what they have to say about life-saving vaccines in Nigeria…

@ Ms. Clark:
I share your concerns 100% What also goes along with the younger diagnosis age, comes higher risk of misdiagnosis, and then also claims of “recovery” will rise, and with it the sales of those “treatments” increase… Vicious, sick cycle. Why can’t these parents see they are just walking dollar signs????

By: Ms. Clark

Ms. Clark — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:39:42 +0000

I hope the article hasn’t incited the mercury militia to attack the author.

“On whether this brain disorder is curable; she said autism is not an ailment that requires drugs.”

By: Believe

Believe — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:35:39 +0000

[...] discussion of the All Africa.com article over at Left Brain/Right Brain, [...]

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:16:32 +0000

And here I was totally looking for this to be some sort of scam article. I wasn’t exactly sure how one could scam neurodiversity though!

By: Bink

Bink — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:09:47 +0000

Thanks for this post, Kev. I was touched by it.

I agree with what Ms. Clark has posted about the money being spent and the debt and the attitudes toward that.